IDS Researcher Robert Chambers books (authored or co-authored) have been made open access for all to read for free.

Conflict, Fragility and Displacement, has launched to coincide with the IDS-hosted conference, organised by the  BASIC ...

With the window for applying for the Chevening Scholarship closing next month, we reached out to some IDS graduates who were ...

Zimbabwe’s national statistical agency, ZimStat, recently reported that 76% of the national economy is informal. This should be of no surprise to anyone, but what to do about it is the big question ...

Mamdani’s campaign reminds us that democracy isn’t merely about elections, it is about how power is distributed and claimed.

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

This Research Briefing explores PSNP effectiveness by evaluating whether households leaving, or “graduating”, are (1) Better off than when they first entered; (2) Better off than those remaining; and ...

As the world experiences a decline in democracy, nearly three out of four people now live in countries with autocratic ...

This Policy Briefing synthesises emerging lessons from research conducted by the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme, predominantly in the northeastern region of the country (which ...

Investment in global development – whatever we call it – needs to be accountable, and meaningful for those who count on it the most, as well as for those who contribute to investing in it – whether ...